From the weather-is-not-climate department:
By Jeff Fish, Globe Correspondent
Ignoring the calendar, which showed the beginning of the month of July, a dusting of snow fell Thursday on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, startling tourists and forcing the closure of the road to the top.
“It’s not extraordinary, but it’s definitely interesting,” said Stacey Kawecki, a meteorologist for the Mount Washington Observatory.
Mount Washington, the Northeast’s highest peak at 6,288 feet, has recorded snow in every month. The last time it was recorded in July was 2007.
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Regg says:
July 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm:
If you look at the skeptical scientists, no one of them will deny the global warming situation we’re in for the last 150 years or so (with fluctuation – but still warming).
No one who is sceptical even needs to deny “the global warming situation”. Instead, what is demanded first from any real scientist is a reconstruction of what would be considered a truely scientifically reasonable record of the “world’s” temperature course, complete with the many caveats which will arise, including whether a GMT constructed from these surface and “oceanic” stations has any important physical meaning at all – something which so far has definitely not been presented by Climate Science.
addendum to my above post: What’s wrong with the idea that Climate Science should have started at the beginning?
I’ve climbed Mt Washington twice, both in the middle of the summer, and saw legitimately ALL kinds of weather (at one point in a 5 minute span, it went from clear to cloudy to rain to sleet to snow to hail to rain and then sunny). The weather there is not only highly variable, but often unrelated to surrounding conditions. It is the site of the highest recorded wind speed in history (231 mph), and as much as I like sticking it in the faces of people who say crazy weather is indicative of CAGW, this one is totally par for the course.
Actually scratch that, looks like it was broken in 1996, Barrow Island, Australia, having trouble finding a good citation, but the claim is that the record is now 253mph.
Novareason says:
July 5, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Links, notes, and reactions are at
http://www.mountwashington.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5789
113.2 m/s (253 mph; 220 kt)
The WMO didn’t send a copy of the release to the MWO, though some people did know that it was under review. I suggested that that the WMO change the classifications for wind records as the new record makes the existing structure a little awkward.
good